Comments on: Health insurers and physician rating forums http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/01/health-insurers-and-physician-rating.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/01/health-insurers-and-physician-rating.html#comment-82941 Anonymous Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:33:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/01/health-insurers-and-physician-rating-forums.html#comment-82941 Mud not only sticks, but it splatters also. I have found that any sort of entaglement with sloppy operations--including insurance companies, sullies the doctors reputation as well.<br/><br/>Work for a clinic with grouchy staff or poorly run front end, and patients will come in with a bad attitude and primed for a bad doctor-patient interactions. Work for an HMO that jerks people around, and you are increasing the risk that you'll get a suit or complaint.<br/><br/>When people get jerked around by the insurance company, some will believe them when they say you are overcharging, etc.<br/><br/>Really to be fair, they should let doctors post complaints about the company on those very same forums.<br/><br/>The problem with the internet, as opposed to ordinary social settings, is that the reader doesn't know which complainants are reasonable people and which are plain looney. Mud not only sticks, but it splatters also. I have found that any sort of entaglement with sloppy operations–including insurance companies, sullies the doctors reputation as well.

Work for a clinic with grouchy staff or poorly run front end, and patients will come in with a bad attitude and primed for a bad doctor-patient interactions. Work for an HMO that jerks people around, and you are increasing the risk that you’ll get a suit or complaint.

When people get jerked around by the insurance company, some will believe them when they say you are overcharging, etc.

Really to be fair, they should let doctors post complaints about the company on those very same forums.

The problem with the internet, as opposed to ordinary social settings, is that the reader doesn’t know which complainants are reasonable people and which are plain looney.

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